Staff Picks: Failed State by Christopher Brown

December 16, 2020December 15, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Russell Letson picks Failed State by Christopher Brown: “I called Rule of Capture ‘one long scary dream disguised as an entertainment,’ and that blurbable description fits Failed State as well – a book that continues the portrait of a near future made mean by kleptocracy, corruption, and cultural-ideological conflict-unto-warfare.”

Read Russell’s full review online or in the September 2020 issue of Locus.

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